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No. 756,367. PATENTED APR. 5, 1904. C. H. HOWE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 1'1. 190s.

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PATENT OFFICE.

COMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,367, dated April 5, 1904.

Application filed September 11, 1903. Serial No. 172,742. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES H. Hown, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leominster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful Comb, of which the following is a specification.'

This invention relates to a hair-supporting comb which has been designed to act as a foundation of a pompadour, coiffure, or other raised hair-dressing.

, The especial object of this invention is to provide a strong, light, and inexpensive hairsupporting comb in which the parts are secured together so that an eficient toilet article will. be provided which cannot readily be broken. A

To this end this invention consists of the comb as an article of manufacture and of the combinations of parts therein, las hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a comb constructed according to this invention, and Fig. 2 is a rear view thereof.

Referring to the drawings and in detail, a comb constructed according to this invention as herein illustrated comprises a curved body portion 10, which has the ordinary teeth 11 along one edge,with a larger and shorter combtooth 12 at each end. Secured upon the convex face of the body portion 10 so as to extend therefrom is a coiled strip 13. The strip 13 is coiled to form a helix tapering toward both of its ends. Successive coils of the helix are brazed or otherwise cemented to the body portion, and in order to tie the free edges of the successive convolutions together I prefer ably provide a binding-strip 14, which is cemented or brazed to the successive convolutions, with its ends carried inside the end coils.

In the use of a hair-supporting comb as thus constructed the comb-teeth are inserted into the hair of the wearer from the top of the head toward the forehead, so that the coil 13 will form a foundation over which the hair may be drawn to form the raised coiffure.

I am aware that changes may be made in the construction of my hair-supporting combs without departing from the scope of my invention as expressed in the claims. I do not wish, therefore, to be limited to the form or proportions which I have herein shown and described; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, ism

1. As an article of manufacture, a hair-sup-v porting comb comprising a toothed body portion and a frame located entirely at one side of the body portion, and comprising coils which are united tangentially to the convex surface of the comb-body, and a binding-strip which connects the free edges of the coils.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hair-supporting comb comprising a curved toothed body'portion, a `strip coiled to form a helix tapering at both ends, the successive convolutions thereof being secured to the convex face of the body portion, whereby the helix will project entirely from one side of the body portion, and a binding-strip connecting the; free sides of the convolutions.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses:

CHARLES H. HOWE.

Witnesses:

PHILIP W. SOUTHGATE, LoUIs W. SOUTHGATE. 

